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Wile E. Coyote: Looney Tunes (Chuck Close)

The Long Nose

$1B

Radar

1984

Early Multi-Touch 2007

iPhone

~

Weiser, M. (1991). The computer for the

21st century. Scientific American, 265(3),

94-104.

• everywhere • transparent

Ubiquitous Computing

Boards, Pads & Tabs

55” Surface Hub 84” Surface Hub

Range of reach

Screen Width

5b

Ribbon as Palette?

Compare

to PPT

Draw tool

Ribbon

Example of In-

Place Commands

Ribbon as Palette? 9

The RoT

The more you eat,

the more you want.

Of the collection of

devices

Of the individual device

Threshold of frustration Co

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1 Every new product and service must provide

great experience and excellent value—it

works, flows & has demand.

2 But each must also reduce the complexity

and increase the value of all of the others.

Things work together.

Seamless

Graceful

Aggregation & Disaggregation

Augmentation & Degradation

Tech

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Seamless

Graceful

Aggregation & Disaggregation

Augmentation & Degradation

Tech

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Transitions Qualities

Current Slide Slide List

Speaker Notes

Slide List

Speaker Notes

Do you know this guy?

Are you this guy?

Natural?

Fix on device?

Do you like this guy?

Do you like who makes you this guy?

What if things just worked?

What if things just worked together?

What if things just worked together seamlessly?

What if in so doing, complexity went down, and value up,

for everything?

Questions of Aspiration

What if we created developer’s tools to

facilitate making this happen?

Now that we could do anything

What should we do? Photo: Marko Prezelj

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